It's been said by many that this film titled Exorcism is nothing but a rip off of William Friedkin's 1973 film based on the popular William Peter Blatty novel The Exorcist, which to this day many people believe is the most frightening horror film ever made. However I...

Adapted from the same-titled novel by Flemish cult writer Herman Brusselmans, this is an occasionally striking, self-indulgent feature length kick in the nuts for the PC brigade. Shot in grimy locations in trendily washed-out colors, it is deliberately cavalier and...

This month, NoShame Films unleashes a trio of rare, uncut ‘70s poliziotteschi/crime films, and Emergency Squad, one of the three DVDs in this spectacular series, is a particularly exceptional and compelling outing, sporting all of the core genre essentials that the...

Unleashed from prison after 40 years, Coffin Joe (you know, the guy with talons, long black coat and permanent scowl, played with hammy relish by director Jose Mojica Marins) and his hunchback assistant resume their life-long mission to obtain immortality by finding...

Before Poltergeist or Ghostbusters, director Sidney Furie presented us with a tale of graphically-brutal horror in the form of a supernatural antagonist in The Entity. During a time when the genre was laden with slasher films, Furie skirted the line between a ghost...

Recently screened as part of the Cambridge Film Festival in England, END OF THE LINE is writer-director Maurice Devereaux’s first film since 2001’s $LASHER$, a technically ambitious satire of both reality TV and slasher flicks. This movie has some questionable...

Ellory Elkayem’s feature-length debut, Eight Legged Freaks (ELF), attempts to take producer Roland Emmerich’s love for the gigantic and create a parody of 1950’s monster invasion flicks. What I gathered from the movie is that the filmmakers had perhaps too much fun...

There are strong echoes of both FALLING DOWN and AFTER HOURS in Stuart Gordon’s latest genre-bending movie. It’s a riveting depiction of the escalating horrors faced by a mild mannered schmuck / long-term doormat as he finds himself in way over his head, out of cash...

"The Edge of Reality" is a set of three short horror films (Ala: Creepshow) made low budget style. Released by Brimstone Productions (site link above), this film follows the tradition of last years film, Monsterdotcom which I extremely enjoyed. However this is not as...

It's very hard to pull off a good sci-fi film with a minimal budget. Science Fiction is a genre that usually does best when the visual effects look stunning and the story is out of this world. The same goes with a horror-sci-fi film. You need something that looks and...

Writer-director James Watkins - who co-wrote the equally despondent MY LITTLE EYE and has the unenviable task of scripting the upcoming THE DESCENT 2 - has made a nihilistic, relentlessly intense hoodie-generation variation on WHO COULD KILL A CHILD? It takes a...

How does one person have the balls to take a trademarked Sesame Street character and turn him into a ruthless killer? My guess is that this film was actually made for the pure purpose of: A: For the pure fun of filmmaking. B: To showcase the talent of the filmmakers....

Most short horror films serve one purpose and one purpose only--as stepping stones for filmmakers wanting a larger budget. The genre is perfect for hopeful up-and-comers for it does not demand star recognition because--and unlike in most other categories of...

Wouldn’t you expect something a little better from the man who brought forth one of the most frightening films in cinematic history? Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then this? Well, I guess we all can’t have our cake and eat it to, but we can enjoy slaughtering trash such as...